I have have experience in overclocking but have never OC'ed a Athlon 64. I want a nice speed of 2.6GHz Is this doable with my set up and what all do I need to tweak? I have the same ram on my Athlon XP 3200 system and I was able to OC it to 2.5 GHz but I had to loosen the timmings on the ram to 3T 3-3-3-5 from stock. What should I set everything to too have a stable system. Mostly I am gammer, only other things I do on it is surf and homework for college, thats it.

Nice ram. I just ordered the same set. Fastest stock 1 gb sticks on the market. Great mobo as well. Thats going to be a very solid system.2.6 with a san diego 3700+ on air is a piece of cake. I would have recommended the zalman 7700cu rather than the 7000 (I have one of each and the 7700 is about 4C cooler under load) but the 7000 is still a solid cooler. My second rig is a close match to yours. Good luck and welcome to overclock!

Nice ram. I just ordered the same set. Fastest stock 1 gb sticks on the market. Great mobo as well. Thats going to be a very solid system.2.6 with a san diego 3700+ on air is a piece of cake. I would have recommended the zalman 7700cu rather than the 7000 (I have one of each and the 7700 is about 4C cooler under load) but the 7000 is still a solid cooler. My second rig is a close match to yours. Good luck and welcome to overclock!

Thanks Robilar! I almost bought the Athlon 64 4000+ sandy but decided to make a scrifice to get a 7800GT, I kinda wish I would have just gotten the 4000 sandy and the 7800GT O well. I was looking at the bigger CPU cooler but was affraid of how big it was, I do regret getting the smaller one. I might just throw it on my NF7-S2G board if it will fit and then buy the better cooler.

I cant wait to try out this new system. My other rig is a Athlon XP 3200 on an Asus A7N8X-E-Deluxe with a 6600GT card. The best score I could get on 3d Mark 03 was around 9800 marks. I hope this pc will blow that away. I have a 3rd rig set up to be a linux server, it has a Athlon XP 1800 on a Nf7-S2G, I would like to find a good deal on another socket A chip to upgrade that. The good XP chips have went up far in price.